L'appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
05 Jun 2015 - 30 Sep 2015
Mohamed Larbi Rahhali in his studio at Tétouan. Photo: Natasha Ginwala.
L’appartement 22 presents Mind Moves Matter, the first exhibition showcasing a lifetime of thinking and work by the Tétouan-based artist Mohamed Larbi Rahhali.
By animating forms of the everyday and through an insightful understanding of time that is at once deeply personal yet also extending to the planetary scale, Larbi reveals the practice of life as a constant experiment in art making.
In a Gesamtkunstwerk bringing together conceptual, scientific and artisanal vocabulary, we witness the minute interiors of a matchbox, the motions upon a self-made sundial and the intricate expanse of fishnets that encompass knowledge of the sea.
The exhibition is curated by Natasha Ginwala.
Mohamed Larbi Rahhali lives and works in Tétouan. His recent group exhibitions include Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2015), Before our eyes, MACBA, Barcelona (2015) Sous nos yeux. Part 2, Kunsthalle, centre d’art contemporain Mulhouse (2013), Sentences on the banks and other activities, Darat al Funun, Amman (2010). He took part at the workshop 3RS Maroc led by Seamus Farrell and organized by L’appartement 22 between Fes, Rabat and Tétouan (2007). Mind Moves Matter at L’appartement 22 is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist.
Natasha Ginwala is an independent curator, researcher, and writer. She is curatorial advisor and public programmes curator, My East is Your West at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), and was a member of the artistic team at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014). Her recent work also includes Corruption: Everybody Knows… for e-flux journal’s special issue, Supercommunity, at 56th Venice Biennale, the multi-part curatorial project Landings (with Vivian Ziherl), 2013–ongoing, as well as The Museum of Rhythm at Taipei Biennial 2012 (with Anselm Franke). Ginwala regularly contributes to artist publications and periodicals.
L’appartement 22 was founded in 2002 by Abdellah Karroum following a series of gatherings, discussions and expeditions. L’appartement 22 has played a fundamental role in the transformation of the art scene in Morocco for the last decade, working with a generation of artists addressing major issues of gender and freedom of expression in a region where politics, religion and economy are often exclusive items of traditional and post-independence power.
L’appartement 22
279 avenue Mohamed
V 10 000 Rabat
